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La Victoria, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the La Grulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the La Grulla quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

La Victoria within Starr County

Population over time

3 figures

La Victoria fell from 1,683 to 176 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,683
2010171-1,512 (-90%)
2020176+5 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

396 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of La Victoria between 2000 and 2020, burning about 5,845 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning242
Missing data/not specified/undetermined131
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service86 OLD CASITA RD
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexHAY
7 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIPELINE ROAD
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENITO ST.
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CASITA RD.
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURORA ST.
5 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2075 N FM 2360 RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Victoria: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lopez Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Nordmeyer Incorporated OperationsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Starr County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Olmito and Olmito Number 2 Colonia0.0 miles11
El Socio Colonia0.2 miles11
El Castillo Colonia0.4 miles11
Eugenio Saenz Colonia1.3 miles11
Zarate Colonia1.4 miles11
Alto Bonito Heights Colonia1.8 miles11
Mikes Colonia1.8 miles11
Valle Vista Number 2 Colonia1.8 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on La VictoriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982114The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1852729. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.